Wordpress team just released the third beta version of Wordpress 2.7. First thing you will notice will be the new background color, new background color is a darker tone of white color. I think this makes the new design easy on the eyes. New design has that soft & clean look.  There are a lot of fixes, 160 to be precise.  They changed submenu fonts.  New menu has been improved. Overal, it’s probably a beta release that you don’t want to miss out on. If you’re already using a 2.7 version, scroll down to bottom right of your admin panel and click on “stay updated” then follow instructions.  If you are still using 2.6, here is the download link for 2.7 Beta 3.

• Numerous style improvements and refinements.
• All admin notices now go under the page title.
• PHP Notice fixes.
• Dashboard widget options now properly save.
• Menu fixes.
• New design for Quick Edit.
• Canonical feed URL fixes.
• Walker fixes.
• An update for Hello Dolly.
• Plugin installer updates.
• Numerous font updates.
• Updated login logo.
• Click here to read more….

I gotta say I’m pretty impressed with new design. They are making it better on every release. I can’t wait for the next one.

Wordpress has released a beta version for their next release 2.7. As they have announced before, this version of wordpress comes with a newly designed admin panel.  As said in the announcement post, new designed is not completely finished. There are some glitches but they will be fixed before the RC version of Wordpress 2.7, which will be released on November 10.

I must say they have done a great job with this new design.  It looks great. Although, I’ll be missing the old style. It gives you full control on your admin index page. You can customize it as you wish. Unfortunately, they are behind their schedule and won’t be able to release 2.7 on November 10.  It’s been postponed to  the end of November.

One of the new features that I really like is that automatic upgrades. You can now upgrade your Wordpress without downloading the version from the site and upload it to your website. I know this was announced before but it’s good to see it in action.

Finally, a list. I have been waiting for this for long time. I have been browsing ideas section at Wordpress dot org and I really liked some of the thoughts for future releases and finally I stumbled accross with this post. According to the roadmap, Wordpress 2.7 will be released in November, only couple of months away.

2.7 is going to be a great update because of these new features;

• New admin UI based on the crazyhorse experimental UI branch with new menus and navigation
• New edit post page that allows dragging and dropping of meta boxes. Boxes can be expanded and collapsed as before and now also completely hidden.
• Ability to hide columns on the content index pages
• Inline editing of posts and pages on the content index pages
• Comments XMLRPC API (Who wants comment moderation on the iPhone? Me.)
• Reply to comments from the admin
• Keyboard hot keys for managing comments
• Threaded Comments and new wp_list_comments() API
• Sticky Posts
• Automatic plugin install and integrated plugin browser
• Automatic upgrade of WordPress
• HTTPOnly auth cookies
• New HTTP request API
• A new SSH2 filesystem abstraction for updates and installs over sftp

Automatic Upgrade of Wordpress was a must, I’m glad they are finally making this happen.  Sticky posts are going to be useful. Can’t wait for the beta releases. If everything goes well, features like theme update can make it for 2.7. I’m pretty excited about this as well since I own a theme at wordpress dot org.

Please head over to Ryan Boren’s post to read the rest of his post.

They have just released 2.6.1 after two beta versions. Seems like they fixed plenty of bugs. Although, I haven’t noticed any of them. I upgraded my blog as well, but not because of those fixed bugs. I did it to get rid of that notice in dashboard. It just annoys me. Plus, there is not really a major change. I think they are going to start adding new features just like they did afetr 2.5.1. Go ahead and vote some ideas at wordpress dot org.

But anyways, wordpress 2.6.1 is available for download. If you wish to get rid of that annoying notice from your dashboard, go ahead and download 2.6.1 and upgrade your blog.

Yet another release from Wordpress, according to the roadmap for future releases,  Wordpress 2.7 will be released on November 10. But before then, there is going to be 2.6.1 just like the 2.5.1 before 2.6.  Ryan Boren, lead developer of Wordpress, has released the second beta version of 2.6.1. It’s available for download.

I just upgraded wordpress on my localhost to this version. There is not really a big change between 2.6 and 2.6.1. It’s mostly the bugs they fixed from previous versions. They want to get ready before they start putting 2.7 together, new features and all.

They fix the bugs and release a child version then, after getting some reviews on the release. They start developing the next main version. I think it’s a good system.

Anyways, a new beta version is available. Here is the link to Ryan Boren’s site.

So I have finally updated my blog to Wordpress 2.6 and I wanted to try its new features.  Just before this new release, I was looking for a plugin that can caption images. It’s a pretty neat feature of wordpress 2.6.  So I went ahead and tried. What happened was that there was no style. It didn’t look good. I went ahead and took a look at my page’s source and tried to edit  CSS but it didn’t work.

But yesterday,  I found this codex article at wordpress dot org. It has fixed the problem. Here is the code block that you need to in order for it to work with style;


.wp-caption {
border: 1px solid #ddd;
text-align: center;
background-color: #f3f3f3;
padding-top: 4px;
margin: 10px;
/* optional rounded corners for browsers that support it */
-moz-border-radius: 3px;
-khtml-border-radius: 3px;
-webkit-border-radius: 3px;
border-radius: 3px;
}

.wp-caption img {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
border: 0 none;
}

.wp-caption p.wp-caption-text {
font-size: 11px;
line-height: 17px;
padding: 0 4px 5px;
margin: 0;
}

Of course you can edit this as you want to fit to your custom wordpress theme. I have changed couple of things and here is how it looks;

This is a picture I took in St. Petersburg in Russia.